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"With the iOS SDK, you can get started developing your iOS application for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch today. Access the iOS Dev Center for a wealth of resources including videos, sample code, technical documentation, Apple Developer Forums, and more."

requires an apple developer account

"4-H has developed a comprehensive robotics program to inspire young people and develop an early interest in robotics engineering and technology."

"The Teacher Roadmap provides instructions for teaching the "Game Development with XNA: Semester 1" material. This is an exciting CS course that allows students to apply their basic foundation in programming to game and simulation development using C# and the XNA framework. The complete curriculum is available below."

site for developers of android apps

"Unity is a feature rich, fully integrated development engine for the creation of interactive 3D content. It provides complete, out-of-the-box functionality to assemble high-quality, high-performing content and publish to multiple platforms. Unity helps indie developers and designers, small and major studios, multinational corporations, students and hobbyists to drastically reduce the time, effort and cost of making games."

Looks like great content, but you must pay or subscribe.-- Welcome to Teach Digital Arts, your entire curriculum solution for Digital Media Arts. This site is still under development, so please be patient as content is added in the coming monthsWelcome to Teach Digital Arts, your entire curriculum solution for Digital Media Arts. This site is still under development, so please be patient as content is added in the coming months.

Apple Developer Center

"Robotics is a great way to get kids excited about science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) topics. It is also highly effective in developing team-work and self-confidence. This web site is designed to help K-12 and other educators in developing or improving courses that use robotics as a tool for teaching STEM topics or as a topic in itself. The materials on this site include down-loadable lesson plans and links to other useful resources, such as teacher training workshops, public robotic contests, and other educational robotics web sites."

SAM Animation is user-friendly software designed specifically for K-12 students and teachers, allowing for quick and easy creation of stop-motion animations in content ranging from photosynthesis to Newton's Laws to poetry to fractions.  SAM was originally developed at the Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach and is now an exclusive product of iCreate to Educate.  Stay tuned for more research developments by the creators of SAM!

The 21st Century learner encounters different perspectives, different cultures, and different languages when involved in global collaborative learning. These technology-savvy students will develop personal skills that include the ability to self-assess their behavior, to develop and achieve goals, and to react to real world situations. 

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Xcode is Apple's powerful integrated development environment for creating great apps for Mac, iPhone, and iPad. Xcode includes the Instruments analysis tool, iOS Simulator, and the latest Mac OS X and iOS SDKs.

The MIT Video website - developed and maintained by the MIT News Office - aggregates and curates video produced by the Institute's offices, laboratories, centers and administration. This includes feature and editorial videos, event recordings, academic content and more. Each day, the editorial team at MIT Video selects one or more videos to "spotlight" based on the videos' content, production value and timeliness. We hope you enjoy MIT Video and welcome your feedback as we continue to develop the site.

Principles is a proposed AP course under development that seeks to broaden participation in computing and computer science. Development is being led by a team of computer science educators organized by the College Board and the National Science Foundation.  Many of the standards for the course that became Fundamentals came from this course.

"Build software better, together. Powerful collaboration, review, and code management for open source and private development projects."

Created by Smashing Media in Germany, this website offers treasures for artists and techies, sharing resources like new free fonts. Founded in 2006, this site speaks mainly to Web designers and developers, with posts on creative and technical themes like emotional design and responsive design. Also helpful are the coding Q&A on CSS and the Best of Coding and Best of Design sections, with thoughts on usability, mobile design and more.

"Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development."

Teacher professional development and classroom resources across the curriculum

although specifically geared towards Python programmers, the PyGame library is a good choice for new developers and programmers as well; free. Offers a free online book dedicated to creating games.